[andyt]

Sheesh, didn't know I said all that. With so few words too.

What were the republicans supposed to do? How about being for civil rights. I mean if the racists are joining your party, it's because your party is racist, no?

[martin14]

What part of the Republican platform is racist ?

[andyt]

When the dixie democrats started voting republican because of the civil rights act, what does that tell you about republican policies at the time?

[rickc]

andyt andyt:

Sheesh, didn't know I said all that. With so few words too.

What were the republicans supposed to do? How about being for civil rights. I mean if the racists are joining your party, it's because your party is racist, no?

Did you read anything that I posted? The republicans were for civil rights. The republicans freed the slaves. Republican President Teddy Roosevelt invited Booker T. Washington to a dinner at the White house, making him the first African American to attend an official dinner at the White house. It was the republican President Eisenhower that federalized the Arkansas national guard to prevent a democrat Governor from keeping African Americans from attending Little Rock Central High School. Republican President Eisenhower proposed the civil rights act of 1957, that was killed by the democrats, including the record setting filibuster of democrat Sen. Strom Thurmond. It was democrat Governor George Wallace saying segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever. He was the one stating that he could not allow any niggras into his university of Alabama. Almost every incident of violence during the civil rights era of the 60's were in democrat controlled areas of the country. Even the democrat convention of 1968 in Chicago was in a democrat stronghold controlled by the last political machine in America, (a machine that exists to this day). Mayor Richard J. Daley unleashed his thug police force on the unsuspecting populace in one of the biggest beatdowns of American citizens in American history. Ironically enough they would have been looking to beat your left wing hippy ass. Me with my short hair military style hair cut, and conservative attire, would probabaly been allowed to pass without incident.

[martin14]

rickc rickc:

Did you read anything that I posted?

I'll guarantee you he didn't.

You are arguing with a certified troll, just remember that.

andyt andyt:

When the dixie democrats started voting republican because of the civil rights act, what does that tell you about republican policies at the time?

Dodge and fail.


What part of the Republican platform is racist ?

[rickc]

The democrats have done nothing to help African Americans. They did everything in their power to keep them down with Jim Crow, and segregation. Then they got even crueler by acting like they were helping them with public assistance programs. Programs that have destroyed the family unit, and guaranteed a lifestyle of being addicted to public assistance. African Americans have the lowest number of two parent families in the States. A very high per cent do not even know their father. Programs that offer more money for more dependents encourage more out of wedlock children. People are given money and nothing is expected in return. Multiple generations have been raised living on the dole. These people are taught at an early age that they are "owed something" by society. They get free housing, medical, food, education, utilities, and spending money as well. Nothing is expected of them in return. All this free time with no commitment leads to gang involvement, and criminal activity. They get carried through school as the schools do not want the headache of holding them back. If too many kids fail, the school will lose their accreditation and funding. Look at all those teachers in GA. that were convicted for doing what they were told by the administration to pass the kids and not rock the boat. The democrats are ruining peoples lives to guarantee a constant source of voters who are dependent on them for their very survival. Its the same as the First Nations in Canada. Throw some money at them, keep them on the dole. Never ask anything of them in return. Never expect them to do anything. If enough of them start to complain loudly enough, throw some more money at them to make the problem go away. We do not want any problems, and we certainly don't want to appear to be racist by expecting anything from anyone, do we?

[sandorski]

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

just like I said silly buggers.

Interesting. Tell these folks.

http://www.civilwar.org/education/histo ... auses.html

Excerpts

.... For the last ten years we have had numerous and serious causes of complaint against our non-slave-holding confederate States with reference to the subject of African slavery...

...In the momentous step which our State has taken of dissolving its connection with the government of which we so long formed a part, it is but just that we should declare the prominent reasons which have induced our course.

Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery--...

...She was received as a commonwealth holding, maintaining and protecting the institution known as negro slavery-- the servitude of the African to the white race within her limits-- a relation that had existed from the first settlement of her wilderness by the white race, and which her people intended should exist in all future time. Her institutions and geographical position established the strongest ties between her and other slave-holding States of the confederacy. Those ties have been strengthened by association. But what has been the course of the government of the United States, and of the people and authorities of the non-slave-holding States, since our connection with them?...

[sandorski]

rickc rickc:

The democrats have done nothing to help African Americans. They did everything in their power to keep them down with Jim Crow, and segregation. Then they got even crueler by acting like they were helping them with public assistance programs. Programs that have destroyed the family unit, and guaranteed a lifestyle of being addicted to public assistance. African Americans have the lowest number of two parent families in the States. A very high per cent do not even know their father. Programs that offer more money for more dependents encourage more out of wedlock children. People are given money and nothing is expected in return. Multiple generations have been raised living on the dole. These people are taught at an early age that they are "owed something" by society. They get free housing, medical, food, education, utilities, and spending money as well. Nothing is expected of them in return. All this free time with no commitment leads to gang involvement, and criminal activity. They get carried through school as the schools do not want the headache of holding them back. If too many kids fail, the school will lose their accreditation and funding. Look at all those teachers in GA. that were convicted for doing what they were told by the administration to pass the kids and not rock the boat. The democrats are ruining peoples lives to guarantee a constant source of voters who are dependent on them for their very survival. Its the same as the First Nations in Canada. Throw some money at them, keep them on the dole. Never ask anything of them in return. Never expect them to do anything. If enough of them start to complain loudly enough, throw some more money at them to make the problem go away. We do not want any problems, and we certainly don't want to appear to be racist by expecting anything from anyone, do we?

Political parties change.

[BartSimpson]

rickc rickc:

The democrats have done nothing to help African Americans. They did everything in their power to keep them down with Jim Crow, and segregation. Then they got even crueler by acting like they were helping them with public assistance programs. Programs that have destroyed the family unit, and guaranteed a lifestyle of being addicted to public assistance. African Americans have the lowest number of two parent families in the States. A very high per cent do not even know their father. Programs that offer more money for more dependents encourage more out of wedlock children. People are given money and nothing is expected in return. Multiple generations have been raised living on the dole. These people are taught at an early age that they are "owed something" by society. They get free housing, medical, food, education, utilities, and spending money as well. Nothing is expected of them in return. All this free time with no commitment leads to gang involvement, and criminal activity. They get carried through school as the schools do not want the headache of holding them back. If too many kids fail, the school will lose their accreditation and funding. Look at all those teachers in GA. that were convicted for doing what they were told by the administration to pass the kids and not rock the boat. The democrats are ruining peoples lives to guarantee a constant source of voters who are dependent on them for their very survival. Its the same as the First Nations in Canada. Throw some money at them, keep them on the dole. Never ask anything of them in return. Never expect them to do anything. If enough of them start to complain loudly enough, throw some more money at them to make the problem go away. We do not want any problems, and we certainly don't want to appear to be racist by expecting anything from anyone, do we?

You also missed mentioning that the arrest rates of African-Americans are highest in cities run by Democrats.

[Lemmy]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

You also missed mentioning that the arrest rates of African-Americans are highest in cities run by Democrats.

Which proves/suggests what exactly?

[Thanos]

American cities with a majority-black population (Detroit, Baltimore, Washington DC, some of those abattoirs in Ohio & New Jersey, etc.) that are run by black Democrats of the Jesse Jackson/Al Sharpton ilk are invariably corrupt & crime-ridden shitholes.

[Lemmy]

Yeah, but American cities without a majority black population (Miami, Los Angeles, Dallas, etc) that aren't run by black Democrats are also invariably corrupt & crime-ridden shitholes. No correlation.

[ShepherdsDog]

Politicians reaffirm the equality of humanity.....doesn't matter what their skin colour is, they are are all equally pieces of shit.

[Thanos]

Most American cities past a certain size are going to be shitholes anyway; there's a legitimate reason why anyone who had the resources to do so fled the big cities for the suburbs over the last sixty years. Don't know about Dallas other than I've heard it's a genuinely unpleasant place in general, just a mean-spirited and ugly redneck attitude that makes the place nasty (I've heard Houston is a lot friendlier in contrast). Miami and LA have been corrupt forever, regardless of who's in charge. Conversely though, cities like Seattle, San Francisco, or Minneapolis are usually Democrat-run but aren't too bad. Liberal, yes, but not corrupt beyond all repair the way the others are thanks to the likes of Jackson & Sharpton.

[BRAH]

BeaverFever BeaverFever:

BRAH BRAH:

The Left wants the flag banned and now everyone is caving, that's censorship the ironic thing is the Left was the founding party of the KKK and had well known members via Robert Byrd. What's next to be banned Doctor Who because an episode offened a Leftist Whiner?

The democrats were not a left wing party at the time. As evidenced bt the fact that once the democrats made support for Civil Rights a party policy, The South has been Republican ever since.

And don't forget Uber republican Strom Thurmond who was not only an unrepentant segregationist (as opposed to Byrd who repented) who even in recent years refused to apologize, but whose family were prominent slave owners up to the end.

Really?